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List of Open Educational Resources
Below is a list of sites that collect Open Educational Resources. These sites can be searched for OER resources that can be adopted or adapted for your classes. This list is based on one provided by LumenLearning.com
Look Here First: General OER Repositories
- Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) – Simultaneously search multiple OER repositories
- OER Commons – Online content; aging, anthropology, archaeology, cultural geography, languages, linguistics, game-based learning, communication across cultures, economics, US History, Asian studies, and more.
- MERLOT – Locate your discipline; business, arts, education, humanities, math, statistics, science, technology, social sciences OR locate by type of material; animations, assessment, assignments, case studies, drill and practice, open textbook, quiz/test, tutorials and more.
- OER Consortium – Low cost and free texts; Nursing, Critical Issues in Health, Addiction, Accounting, Common Sense Management, College Writing, Physical geography.
- PLOS – Open access journals in science (biology, genetics) and medicine.
Textbooks
- OpenStax – Free textbooks: math, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, Astronomy, US History, American Government, Sociology, Psychology.
- Open Textbook Network – Open textbook library; Accounting & Finance, Business, Management & Marketing, Computer Science & Information Systems, Economics, Education, Engineering, Humanities & Languages, Journalism, Media Studies & Communications, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Natural & Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Student Success.
- BC Campus – Open Textbooks; art, business, recreation & tourism, social sciences, trades.
- OpenCourseWare Consortium – Open textbooks; Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Health, Nursing, History, Physics, Sociology, Probability and Statistics.
- Writing Spaces – Writing Spaces is an open textbook project for college-level writing studies courses.
- The LibreTexts Project – Open-access textbooks and other resources developed in collaboration by a number of institutions, led by UC Davis.
- Rebus Press Projects – Find, create, and collaborate on books created by the Rebus Community
Open Source Articles and Books
- UMass Boston Scholarworks The UMass Boston open access institutional repository for scholarship and research
- Athabasca University Press – Canada’s first open access scholarly press
Course Materials
- Lumen Learning – Low-cost open courseware
- Open Course Library – A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs
- My Open Math – Online math homework, online text, quizzes, videos, instructor resources, various math courses, hybrid/online
- Academic Earth Open courseware from MIT, Berkeley, Stanford University and more
- CogBooks – Biology 101, non-major, $37.00 cost to student
- Saylor – Course materials and lessons in many discipline areas
- BioBeyond Adaptive courseware for BIO 101, non-major, $25.00 cost to student
- Open Learning Initiative – Open, free courses; visual design, anatomy and physiology, languages, media programming, biochemistry, argument
- UMass Boston Open Courseware – UMass Boston open courseware
Science and Engineering
- InteGrate – Sustainability resources and lesson plans for teachers
- Foss Web – K-8 active learning for science
- MIT Blossoms – Science, math and engineering resources
- Teach Engineering – Resource of activities, lessons, units and living labs for applied sciences and math, K-12
- NOVA Labs – Science, engineering, math, videos, labs and digital resources
- CK-12 – STEM K-12, simulations, adaptive content, concept-based learning
Virtual Simulation Tools and Software
- Virtual Molecular Dynamics Laboratory – suite of (free) software tools by Boston University.
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PhET Simulations for Sciences – from University of Colorado
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Nobel Prize Organization has a collection of video games for physical sciences
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Virtual Labs – created by USDA and NMSU
Movies, Videos, Multimedia Resources
- Open Culture – Movies, audio books and ebooks
- Ed TED – Video lessons on various topics
- Hippocampus – Free educational videos and resources
- Creative Commons Search Portal – Discipline specific resources in many formats; clipart, photos, music, media, weblinks, images.
- Coasts and Communities Open Course - Videos from Coasts and Communities open online course offered by UMass Boston
Games
- Steam – Educational games for sciences. Students pay to access, some free
- NOAA Games – Games and interactive activities focused on ocean and air themes
Photos
- Boston City Archives on Flickr
- Google Images. Use advanced search to sort by license.
- Flickr Creative Commons
- Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse Collections
- Wikimedia Commons
- The Met Open Access Collections
- The Art Institute of Chicago Public Domain Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art Public Domain Collection
- The National Gallery of Art Open Access Images
- The Digital Public Library of America
- The Gender Spectrum Collection
- Images of Empowerment
- Nappy
- Picnoi
- Unsplash Diversity Collection
- Disabled and Here Collection
- Pexels
Faculty Development
- AP Central – Continuing education, workshops, professional development
- Teachers Pay Teachers – Low cost and free instructor resources
Open Access Repositories
- Simmons Open Access Directory – A list of Open Access-related resources curated by Simmons College.
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